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Understand Quotes (page 120)

Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job Malcolm X
Miyamoto Musashi quote: "It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study..."
It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet Miyamoto Musashi
Miyamoto Musashi quote: "No man is invincible, and therefore no man can fully..."
No man is invincible, and therefore no man can fully understand that which would make him invincible Miyamoto Musashi
The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing. Soren Kierkegaard
I didn't understand that playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. No one can be any one thing all the time. Portia de Rossi
Dave Barry quote: "Nobody understands how hard it is, being a captain."
Nobody understands how hard it is, being a captain. Dave Barry
Philip Levine quote: "I say, Father, the years have brought me here, still your son,..."
I say, Father, the years have brought me here, still your son, they have brought me to a life I cannot understand. Philip Levine
If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it. Jodi Picoult
This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest. Robert M. Pirsig
The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't altogether know, filled with matter we can't identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don’t truly understand. Bill Bryson
The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us, or we don’t. It is a dimension of the soul It’s not essentially dependent upon some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. Vaclav Havel
Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them. E. M. Forster
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "The mechanism which we don't understand is not anything in our..."
The mechanism which we don't understand is not anything in our soul, but rather that of the life of this expression. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can’t explain them, and those who haven’t known them have no understanding of them at all. Michael Ende
Do you understand? Do you see the forest through the trees? Do you not see what I am no longer not saying to you? If so—congratulations! Prepare to have sex constantly. Chuck Klosterman

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